Shrewsbury Flower Show 2024 - Day 1

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00:00It's the new one this year, first time out, so I try and do something different every

00:12year and this is this year's offering.

00:15I had quite a rather loud blazer but not a suit.

00:19So it's always a piece of clothing.

00:20Floral theme, yeah.

00:21Floral theme, brilliant.

00:22Blending.

00:23This actually is a Chinese Elm and it's actually used as hedging abroad but they actually style

00:31them and then create the pads to make it look more like a bonsai tree because the word bonsai

00:36means tree in a pot.

00:37So I'm Dominic Cleverham, representing CDS Plants.

00:40It's mine and my dad's business who is just on the other stand behind us.

00:43We're based in South Bristol.

00:45I'm an orchid specialist.

00:46I've been doing this for around about nine years now.

00:50So I've always done shows ever since I was very small, obviously growing up with my dad

00:52doing it.

00:53And then I started doing my own stand about nine-ish years ago and then this is my second

00:58full-time year doing shows properly.

01:18A teacher over at William Brookes School in Much Wenlock, we've been working with a group

01:22of several groups of students since January to create the garden that's behind me now.

01:28We've got a design group that have been working on the initial design, a construction group

01:33who have made the actual structure of our containers and finished those off for us.

01:38We've had a gardening group as well who have done the actual growing of the plants and

01:42I'm with the school's production team, presentation team today.

01:47The theme of the garden is set by the organisers of the show.

01:51It's Stronger Working Together this year.

01:54So we based our design on the theme of a colour spectrum, which we tried to blend in, match

02:02the colours of the plants to the containers as we've gone along.

02:05So we've run through from red through to...

02:07We're the only UK Coubertin school in the UK, which gives us a link to Baron Pierre

02:14Coubertin, who was the founder of the modern day Olympics and he came over to Much Wenlock

02:18in the late Victorian times and met up with the local doctor at the time, a guy called

02:23William Brooks, who we got our school name from and he was inspired that much by the

02:28Wenlock Olympic Games that he went then back to his home and he created the modern day

02:34Olympics that we know and enjoy today.